Amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from raising tuition for a postsecondary education institution more than 5% a year for resident students and 7% a year for nonresident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled resident students; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase to tuition or fees to be approved before March 1 of the proceeding school year; amend KRS 164.131 to add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, including 1 graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.821 to add a second faculty member to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees; add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees, including 1 graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.321 to add a second faculty member to the boards of regents of comprehensive universities; add 2 additional full-time student members to the boards of regents, including 1 full-time graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; provide that the bill may be cited as the Kentucky Student Tuition Protection and Accountability Act; EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2024.
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Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Darryl Owens.
Recognize January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Create a new section of KRS 216B.230 to 216B.239 to require hospitals, prior to discharge of a veteran with a serious physical injury or trauma, to notify the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to ensure the veteran is provided services, resources, or other qualifying entitlements for their recovery; amend KRS 40.317 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs, upon notification from the hospital or veteran, to make contact with the veteran within one business day to ensure assistance is provided; establish a short title of Keeney's Rights Act.
Appropriate moneys to the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (SAFE) fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to create the West Kentucky SAFE fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed; exempt a center from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; limit liability of center; amend KRS 216B.020 to conform; add the short title Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
Amend KRS 132.485 to establish requirements for assessing personal motor vehicles for property tax purposes for the January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2023, assessment dates; allow refunds; require posting of refund information on Web sites; establish requirements for assessing motor vehicles for property tax purposes when the standard manual valuation exceeds six percent of the immediately preceding year's standard manual valuation for assessment dates beginning on or after January 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Chief Rob Orkies and Battalion Chief Garry Key Memorial Highway in Bullitt County.
Amend KRS 304.17A-148 to require that cost sharing for noninsulin drugs and certain equipment and supplies necessary for the treatment of diabetes not exceed certain cost-sharing thresholds; prohibit insurers from conducting or imposing utilization review for diabetes treatment prescribed by a health care provider; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for the costs of mitigating noise from a commercial airport for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2026; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the department to report nonidentifying information on the credit to the Commission; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit.